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Will Sandisk microSD SlotMusic Format Be Another Expensive Failure for the Music Industry?

Will Sandisk microSD SlotMusic Format Be Another Expensive Failure for the Music Industry?

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So Sandisk has just announced that it has partnered with a number of music giants like Universal, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner to launch another physical music format called the Slotmusic which in essence is a microSD memory card with some content on it.We have had expensive USB memory drives loaded with music and videos and now this; the logic behind the move is that there's an increasing number of devices - notably mobile phones - that have microSD slots which can be...



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